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... hope it was no one I should have liked to have seen . " Rudd went , in a stupor . When he was going to bed he related the incident to Sarah . " It wasn't telling the truth , was it ? " he said . Sarah , who disliked Society and its ...
... hope it was no one I should have liked to have seen . " Rudd went , in a stupor . When he was going to bed he related the incident to Sarah . " It wasn't telling the truth , was it ? " he said . Sarah , who disliked Society and its ...
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... have a gardener of my own . " This was an enormous idea to Rudd . A gardener keep a gardener ! His eyes grew very wide . " You'd want to be rather rich , wouldn't you ? " he said . " I hope to be , " said 231 ; 34 LANDMARKS.
... have a gardener of my own . " This was an enormous idea to Rudd . A gardener keep a gardener ! His eyes grew very wide . " You'd want to be rather rich , wouldn't you ? " he said . " I hope to be , " said 231 ; 34 LANDMARKS.
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Edward Verrall Lucas. " I hope to be , " said 231 ; " don't you ? " " I am , " said Rudd simply , " I've got nearly two pounds . I had a sovereign when I was born . " The gardener asked Rudd what he was going to be when he grew up , and ...
Edward Verrall Lucas. " I hope to be , " said 231 ; " don't you ? " " I am , " said Rudd simply , " I've got nearly two pounds . I had a sovereign when I was born . " The gardener asked Rudd what he was going to be when he grew up , and ...
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... hope you will let me come home for a day or two . Please arrange it with Mr. Stokes . Your loving son , - " R. S. " Rudd's chances of getting his way were seriously jeopardized by the addition of the letters M.P. to his father's name on ...
... hope you will let me come home for a day or two . Please arrange it with Mr. Stokes . Your loving son , - " R. S. " Rudd's chances of getting his way were seriously jeopardized by the addition of the letters M.P. to his father's name on ...
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... hope he won't , for it will mean moving to London and every kind of upset , and I am certain that he will soon hate it , even if it doesn't make him ill . He's too impatient for the House of Commons . ” Dinner was to be at half - past ...
... hope he won't , for it will mean moving to London and every kind of upset , and I am certain that he will soon hate it , even if it doesn't make him ill . He's too impatient for the House of Commons . ” Dinner was to be at half - past ...
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Էջ 213 - WILT thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony ? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer, I Will.
Էջ 214 - Wommn, .• wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 124 - One of the most serious thoughts that life provokes is the reflection that we can never tell, at the time, whether a word, a look, a touch, an occurrence of any kind, is trivial or important.
Էջ 20 - Adam and Eve and Pinchme Went down to the river to "bathe. Adam and. Eve got drownded Who do you think was saved?
Էջ 177 - There is only one thing to do and that is to go on down the river.
Էջ 214 - Esther, to be my wedded wife, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, to love and to cherish, till death us do part ; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Էջ 45 - A starry night for a ramble, In the flowery dell, Through the bush and bramble, Kiss, but never tell!
Էջ 1 - Lucas calls his story a moving-picture novel, because in it he has fried to adapt to the novelist's use the methods of "the gifted gentlemen who apply the severe selective machinery of the cinema.